The Winter Olympics in the Turin, Italy area may be eight months away, but
savvy travelers shopping online for accommodations are finding Travelaxe.com to
be an easy-to-use, reliable source for best prices. Travelaxe, Inc. serves
business and leisure travelers with hotel information for 3,530 cities in 106
countries, from Albania to Zimbabwe, including 29 hotels in Turin and more than
1,885 hotels all over Italy. Information from more than 20 different travel
websites is available in unbiased price comparisons with the lowest price
highlighted, additional amenities filters, maps, ratings and more.

AUSTIN, Texas, (PRWEB) June 26, 2005 -- The 2006 Winter Olympics may be eight
months away, but if you want the best chance in Turin, Italy, of getting your
preferred hotel at the lowest price, Travelaxe.com is your gold medal choice for
shopping online reservations fast.

“The opening ceremony is Feb. 10,
2006, and the closing ceremony Feb. 26,” notes Carl Samos, president and founder
of Travelaxe, Inc. of Austin, Texas, one of the world’s fastest growing
aggregators of hotel reservation information. “The only travelers actually
assured of accommodations during that time are the athletes headed for the three
Olympic villages – Bardonecchia, Sestriere and Turin!”

Whether you are
headed for one of the seven Olympic venues, or just want to see one of the 84
events in the 15 sports, overnight accommodations are a must. Travelaxe provides
detailed, comparative pricing on room costs for 29 hotels in Turin, more than
1,885 hotels all over Italy, as well as in another 105 countries. Reasonable
room rates are only a few “mouse clicks” away.

“With every passing day,
winter sports fans can expect an increasingly mad scramble for good lodging at
the right price,” contends Samos.

“Our system can save Olympics-bound
travelers time and money. Whether they are staying in nearby Milan or Genoa or
over the border in Lausanne or Zurich, we can help them avoid questionable and
overpriced hotels in undesirable areas,” he said.

The four-year-old
company serves business and leisure travelers with hotel information for 3,530
cities in 106 countries, from Albania to Zimbabwe. Information from more than 20
different travel websites has been compiled into unbiased price comparisons with
the lowest price highlighted. While Travelaxe highlights the lowest price for
each hotel the user is able to select any travel website to book their room.
Samos adds “We don’t just return the lowest rate we return the most options in
one search and then leave it in the hands of the consumer to make the
choice.”

More than 250,000 users of the free system have already
downloaded and installed the Windows®-based, hotel rates search system onto
their own personal computers. Travelaxe.com searches all the leading travel web
sites, as well as TripReservations.com, TravelWorm, TheReservationCompany,
Travel-Center.com and HotelKingdom.

Travelaxe is classified as an
"aggregator" or "meta search engine,” a growing class of search engines that
scan the web for bargains. Its system is secure and virus-free. It has no
spyware, no adware and doesn't sell its e-mail lists. The company makes
commissions only from the travel web sites, not the traveler.

An Interactive Map & Distance Calculator assists travelers in
determining geographically where they want to stay in relation to the specific
Olympic venue or some other precise map destination. That could save even more
time and money, since transportation and parking may also be scarce or at a
premium during the most popular Olympics events.

“Our system averages the
hotel class ratings from many of the web sites as it searches, giving travelers
a better overall idea of the class rating of a hotel,” Samos emphasized. “If a
family member or traveling companion doesn’t like chilly outdoor sports or
couldn’t score tickets even at scalpers’ prices, our web site gives them access
to show bookings and other interesting nearby sites.”

About
TravelaxeTravelaxe, a privately held corporation founded in 2001 in Austin,
Texas, produces the Travelaxe software and web site for hotel room rates
worldwide. Samos is an Internet pioneer who led the development of Mosaic®, the
famous World Wide Web browser that resulted in the creation of Internet
Explorer®. Visit Travelaxe at www.travelaxe.com. Travelaxe – Side-by-side travel site
comparisons, fast!